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Zusatztext Scary Monsters brings popular music studies into an innovative and important dialogue with theories of monstrosity. Exploring how culture and industry attribute the monstrous also enables Duffett and Hackett to analyse who is marked as innocent, naïve and exploited. Monstrosity is more than attribution alone, however, and this book interrogates pop music’s monsters of toxic masculinity, ranging from managers to stars, and from fans to DJs. Pop’s shiny glamour may promise what have often been culturally feminised pleasures, but Scary Monsters instead approaches the darker recesses and the dangerously romanticised excesses of popular music’s 'monstrous masculine.' Informationen zum Autor Mark Duffett is Associate Professor in Media at the University of Chester, UK in media and popular music for the last 15 years after successfully completing a PhD on Elvis fandom. He currently leads a relevant module in horror cinema and presented a paper on perceptions of extreme fandom for the November 2011 conference "The Monster Inside Us, The Monster Around Us" at DeMontford University, Leicester. Dr. Jon Hackett is Associate Professor in Film and Communications and Head of Communications, Media and Marketing at St Mary's University, Twickenham, UK. His research and teaching interests include critical theory, film studies and popular music studies. Vorwort Through a series of case studies, Scary Monsters examines masculinity in popular music culture from the perspective of research into monstrosity. Zusammenfassung Popular music and masculinity have rarely been examined through the lens of research into monstrosity. The discourses associated with rock and pop, however, actually include more ‘monsters’ than might at first be imagined. Attention to such individuals and cultures can say things about the operation of genre and gender, myth and meaning. Indeed, monstrosity has recently become a growing focus of cultural theory. This is in part because monsters raise shared concerns about transgression, subjectivity, agency, and community. Attention to monstrosity evokes both the spectre of projection (which invokes familial trauma and psychoanalysis) and shared anxieties (that in turn reflect ideologies and beliefs). By pursuing a series of insightful case studies, Scary Monster s considers different aspects of the connection between music, gender and monstrosity. Its argument is that attention to monstrosity provides a unique perspective on the study of masculinity in popular music culture. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Jon Hackett 1. A Night at the Opera: Updating The Phantom Mark Duffett 2. ‘His Muscles Still Bulged Like Iron Bands’: King Kong and the Promotion of Lead Belly Mark Duffett 3. Colonel Parker and the Art of Commercial Exploitation: The Manager as Monster Mark Duffett 4. The Platformed Prometheus: Frankenstein and Glam Rock Jon Hackett 5. The Case of Mark Chapman: Extreme Fandom as Monstrosity? Mark Duffett 6. Exhuming the Gravediggaz: Gothic Hip Hop and Monster Capital Jon Hackett 7. Masculinity on Trial: Noir Désir and Perverse Narcissism Jon Hackett 8. ‘Jingle Jangle Man’: Jimmy Savile, Paedophilia and the Music Industry Mark Duffett References Endnotes Index ...
